Improvement in device foe measuring liquids



FICKETT & WARE.

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No. 65,897. Patented June 1g, 1867;

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ALBERT FICKETT-AND JUSTINE. WARE, OF TITUSVILLF, PENNSYLVANIA.

' Letters Patent/1V0. 65,897, dated June 18, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICE FOR MEASURING LIQUIDS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ALBERT FICKETT and JUs'rIX C. WARE, of' Titusvillc, in the county of Venango, and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Devices for-Measuring Oil; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, A represents an oiltank, made large enough to contain one or two hundred barrels. of oil, or more or less, as the case may be. Within this tank is secured a vessel, B, of any required or desired shape, which will hold about forty (40) or forty-two (42) gallons of oil. Running through this vessel B is a shaft, (7, which said shaft is provided with a lever-handle, D, on one end, which end is outside of the vessel or tank, and on the otherswith a valve, E. The valve E is made in any desired manner, and is intended to close or open an opening niade in the inner end of the vessel B, for the purpose of admitting or excluding oil from said vessel. F represents a pipe, which connects the bottom and top vessel B, running through the'sides of tank A, as shown, 'it-hin one side of this pipe giass is inserted, so as torcnder it transparent, and upon the edge of the metal of said tube marks or indicators are made so as 'to determine the amount of oil in the vessel. G represents a stopcock, which connects with the vessel B, for, the purpose of drawingthe oil from it; II represents an air pipe to the vesselB.

, The object of this invention is to measure oil within the tank before it is drawn out, and this is done as follows: The lever D istnrncd so as to open the valve E; the oil passes from tank A to vessel 13. As the vessel. B fills the amount of'oil in it is indicated in the tube F. .As soon as the number of gallons to be drawn are indicated in pipe F, the lever I) is turnedso as to close the valve E. The stop-cock G is then opened, and the oil from the vessel 13 is allowed to pass into the barrel or other receptacle placed to receive it. Vessel B can he placed without the tank. 7 v V Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The arrangement of the vessel B, secured within the tank A, and used in connection with a valve and stop-cock, substantially in the manner and for the'purpose specified.

2. In combination with the above an'indieator arranged as and for the purpose specified.

As evidence that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT FICKETT, JUSTIN G. WARE.

Witnesses:

JQP. VARIAN, Jos. H. LIVINGSTON. 

